equivocator

What would that master equivocator have said about this amazing region?

Or maybe he wasn't even the equivocator he seemed to be.

As an equivocator, I wasn't doing so well.

"You're not called 'the Equivocator' for nothing," say the awed lovers.

For every unswerving proponent of war, there is a foe or equivocator.

He is described instead as an equivocator on a "journey from populist, to moderate, to moralist and back again."

"George is not an equivocator.

Is he a perpetual equivocator, who voted for the resolution authorizing war with Iraq but against the money to pay for rebuilding?

"Absolutely, I can tell when I am being lied to by a practiced and accomplished equivocator.

O, come in, equivocator.

Yet I have seen thee for what thou art, an equivocator and temporizer who doth leap to wherever the main chance doth fall!

For audience delectation, a porter, a short part apparently and usefully expanded here, talks of politicians, polltakers, health insurers and an "equivocator with lechery."

Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.

Joseph Lieberman, himself something of a droning orator and equivocator (including on impeachment), couldn't solve this problem even were he Sammy Davis Jr.

When he did, he cast a write-in ballot for the state's most celebrated equivocator, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.

BELVILLE: "Hardly", you little equivocator!

Together, the ethically conflicted couple do a power breakfast with the chief defender of the competition in ideas: the dreaded Federal Communications Trustbuster known as the Equivocator.

I think the Republican's portrayal of Kerry as a serial equivocator is largely overblown, there's no getting around the fact that the man has taken every conceivable position on Iraq, often in the same sentence.

A18 Mr. Bush's campaign war room is built to seek out and exploit every possible opportunity to paint John Kerry as a political equivocator who switches positions on important issues when it suits his political interest.

Most of the Bush spots attacked Mr. Kerry as a political equivocator bent on raising taxes and soft on defense, an image that some Democrats and opinion polls suggested was beginning to take hold in voters' minds.

A day after the first presidential debate, President Bush ripped into Senator John Kerry on Friday as an equivocator who denigrates American troops and who would subject national security decisions to vetoes "by countries like France."

Stephen Greenblatt acknowledges the convention that the "equivocator" arriving at the gate of hell in the Porter's speech in Macbeth is a reference to the Jesuit Father Henry Garnet, who had been executed in 1606.

"Well," some moral equivocator, some compromiser of conscience, some unprincipled agent of our corrupt age's corruptive pragmatism will say: "Well, now, all the man has to do is eat the five cans of inferior tuna himself, which can't hurt him.

In that encounter, he unleashed a string of one-liners and ripostes, attacking Mr. Weld as an equivocator by invoking the name of the governor's sometime adviser, who had just resigned from President Bill Clinton's re-election campaign after disclosure of an affair with a prostitute.